Esiaba Irobi
Biographic Data
| ID | 652950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esiaba Irobi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esiaba |
| FAMILY NAME | Irobi |
| SIGNATURE | IROBI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
What They Came With
Special Issue on Wole Soyinka
The Six Blindfolded Men and the Elephants
What They Came With
This article identifies what was on the continent as festival and ritual performance forms before the Europeans arrived and what the Africans who survived the Atlantic sea crossing came with as “performative literacies” to the Brave New World. The article then examines how these cultural texts and phenomenological deposits have given us hybridized and syncretized aesthetic infrastructures that interrogate the theologies of supremacy often associa…
Wole Soyinka
Reviewed by: Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, Postcolonialism Esiaba Irobi Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, Postcolonialism. By Biodun Jeyifo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; pp. x + 332. $70.00 cloth. Biodun Jeyifo's book differs from earlier attempts by both African and Western scholars to explore the sophistication of Soyinka's writing in various genres such as fiction, drama, poetry, polemics, and literary criticism; Jeyifo ancho…
Elegy for Ezenwa–Ohaeto
Theatre of Images
The study of indigenous African Community Drama can be argued to have gone through three predominant phases of theatre scholarship namely: Denial, Validation and Descriptive Analysis. In this essay I want to go beyond these primary forms of academic discourse and theorize the artform from a semiotic perspective
African Drama and Performance (review)
Reviewed by: African Drama and Performance Esiaba Irobi African Drama and Performance. Edited by John Conteh Morgan and Tejumolan Olaniyan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004; pp. xiv + 274. $49.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. This collection of essays is a welcome relief for scholars and professors of African descent who feel that they are treated like invisible acrobats by the academic majority in the US. The book, apart from reconfiguring the…
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Theatre of Images
The study of indigenous African Community Drama can be argued to have gone through three predominant phases of theatre scholarship namely: Denial, Validation and Descriptive Analysis. In this essay I want to go beyond these primary forms of academic discourse and theorize the artform from a semiotic perspective
African Drama and Performance (review)
Reviewed by: African Drama and Performance Esiaba Irobi African Drama and Performance. Edited by John Conteh Morgan and Tejumolan Olaniyan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004; pp. xiv + 274. $49.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. This collection of essays is a welcome relief for scholars and professors of African descent who feel that they are treated like invisible acrobats by the academic majority in the US. The book, apart from reconfiguring the…
Wole Soyinka
Reviewed by: Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, Postcolonialism Esiaba Irobi Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, Postcolonialism. By Biodun Jeyifo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; pp. x + 332. $70.00 cloth. Biodun Jeyifo's book differs from earlier attempts by both African and Western scholars to explore the sophistication of Soyinka's writing in various genres such as fiction, drama, poetry, polemics, and literary criticism; Jeyifo ancho…
Elegy for Ezenwa–Ohaeto
What They Came With
This article identifies what was on the continent as festival and ritual performance forms before the Europeans arrived and what the Africans who survived the Atlantic sea crossing came with as “performative literacies” to the Brave New World. The article then examines how these cultural texts and phenomenological deposits have given us hybridized and syncretized aesthetic infrastructures that interrogate the theologies of supremacy often associa…
Special Issue on Wole Soyinka
The Six Blindfolded Men and the Elephants
What They Came With
Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Drama (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (3 works)